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Aug- 2019 -28 August
Basketball Africa League Announces Seven Host Cities For Inaugural Season
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Basketball Africa League (BAL) announced Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Lagos (Nigeria), Luanda (Angola), Rabat (Morocco) and either Monastir or Tunis (Tunisia) as the host cities…
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28 August
17 Million Voters Purged Nationwide Between 2016 and 2018
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Brennan Center report follows a Center for American Progress analysis that examined how conservative lawmakers are suppressing the votes of people of color, young people, and…
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27 August
Nigeria to Slash Funds For Essential Food Imports While Currency Crisis Looms
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Hard to imagine a steaming plate of Nigerian joll of rice without the rice. Or without fish. Or wheat. Rice, fish and wheat are Nigeria’s top three…
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27 August
OP-ED: How one decision set voting rights back 50 years
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW — “What a lot of people don’t realize is that many aspects of the VRA are not permanent law. Many of the provisions…
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27 August
Butterfield Introduces ‘BRIDGE Act’ to Push STEM Education, Employment
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Butterfield’s legislation would provide teacher education, including the provision of preservice teacher training and in-service professional development at eligible institutions, library, and media specialist training sites.
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27 August
ERAU wins grant to turn more students into engineers
DAYTONA TIMES — With a new $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) researchers plan to help more aspiring engineers bridge the gap between their…
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27 August
Miami aviation association to honor Tuskegee Airman
FLORDIA COURIER — A Tuskegee Airman and other aviation luminaries will be honored at the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s 92th gala on Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Trump National Doral…
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27 August
The Athletic Brilliance, Biometrics and Unbounded Success of Simone Biles
BLACK VOICE NEWS — A four-time Olympic gold medalist, Biles winning the national title for the sixth time this year was certainly cause for celebration. However, it was the “triple-double” Biles…
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27 August
When South Africans Declared ‘Liberation’ at Two Whites-Only Beaches
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — South Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after an action launched by the Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It…
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26 August
COMMENTARY: We need to Revitalize the Great 8a Business Development Program
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 8(a) Business Development program was the brainchild of the late, great Parren J. Mitchell while he was the Chair of the House Small Business Committee and…
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